With apes from the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the researchers placed pairs of bonobos that didn’t know one another in adjacent rooms separated by a fence and ...

By Kristine Sabillo Male bonobos are larger and stronger than females, so researchers have found it puzzling that the female ...

A bonobo named Louise, born into captivity at the San Diego Zoo, lived with her sister, Loretta, and nephew, Erin, before being transferred to the Japan’s Kumamoto Sanctuary in 1992. In the wild ...

(Image Credit: Melodie Kreyer / LKBP) Two female bonobos clasp hands during grooming, which strengthens social bonds When it comes to bonobo hierarchy, the ladies stick together. New research out of ...

In a post on Facebook, the initiative said that Kanzi, a 44-year-old bonobo, died Tuesday afternoon. According to the post, Kanzi didn’t show any signs of discomfort or illness, and had even ...

In a new study published on Thursday in Science, researchers report that bonobo communication is rich in a feature that linguists call compositionality. This refers to the way we string words ...

The authors arrived at their conclusions after studying over 700 recorded wild bonobo sounds. Berthet spent about eight months noting both the sounds and the contexts in which they were made in ...

He's determined, smart and outgoing; you can find him playing on the computer, watching an action movie or chomping on a celery stick in the greenhouse: He's Kanzi, the bonobo who plays Minecraft.

As part of the grand opening celebrations, the zoo also dedicated the new indoor habitat to Claudine André, founder of Friends of Bonobos and the Lola ya Bonobo sanctuary, which are dedicated to ...